Improvement in glass dishes



G. WAHL & B. WEIMANN. Glass Dish..

N0. 221,635. Patented Nov. 11,1879.

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GEORGE WAHL AIID BALTHASAR WEIMANN, OI NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN GLASS DISHES.

Specification forming art of Let'lers Patent No. 221,635, dateal November 11, 1879; application llle(l September 18, 1879.

T0 all whom it may c0ncem:

' Be it known that we, GEORGE WAHL und BALTHASAR WEIMANN, both 0f the city, eounty, and State of New York, hzwe invented a new and useful I1nprovement in Glns Dishes, which improvement is fully set f01th in ehe following specificntion, reference being had t0 the accompanying dmwings, in \\'lll0ll Fignre 1 represents a x*e1tical longitudinal section 0f onr dish. Fig. 2 is a plan 01 top view thereof.

Similar letters indicate correwonding pnrts.

This invention eonsists in a dish 01 peu 1nade of blown glass, as a new mticle 0f mannf 'actu-re.

In ear1ying ona 0m invention we cnt frorn a sphere 01 bulb 0f glass blown in the usnal wny a eheet 0r blank having the ont-line 0f the dish which it is desired t0 produee. \Ve oben soften tlxis blank by hea-t, and plane ehe sarne np0n a foxmer, and bend ll} down upon this former to the desiled shape. The glnss blank is heated t0 such a deglee that when it is placed np0n theforrner lt is sufficiently soft t0 adapt itself thereto; hat, if desired, an in- Strnment, as n wiper, mny be nsed 110 press the edges 0f the blank down upon the sides 0f the formen In this manne1 we obtain n (lisl1 01' pan 0f blown glass of uniform thickness tl1ronghont, with a flm: botto1n, an l 0ne whioh reqnires 110 further labor after lt has becn fonned.

In Ehe drawings, the letter A designates a. (lisl1 1nnde according 1:0 0n1 invention. This dish has a spont, b and is 0f the f0r1n 00mmonly nsed by photogmphers t0 hold zwids; bnt it is obvions Chat 0m invention is applienble t0 n variety 0f dishes.

\Vhat we olnin1 as new, and desire t0 secnre by Letters Patent, is

A dish 01 pan made 0f blown glass, substantially as described, as n new artiule of mannfactnre.

In testimony tlmt we clain1 the foregoinp, we have hereunto set onr hands and seals this 13th day 0f September, 1879.

GEORGE WAHL. [L. s.]

BALTHASAR WEIMANN. [L. s.j

V\""itnessesz W. 1'IAUFF,

GRAS. VAHLERS. 

